she might just be a leaner dog, too...I had a few people (non vet people) tell me Oscar was too skinny when he was younger, and he was free fed! Just the way he was.

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Faust only gets 2 1/2 cups a day, which is way under the recommended amount on the bag. He's about 75+ pounds, and while he isn't fat by any means he could probably stand to even lose a few pounds without it affecting him adversely health-wise.Faust often acts like he's starving... but he's not. As evidenced by the green beans he manages to pick out and leave in a neat circle around his food dish lately...

What did the vet say about her weight?In the pics you posted she did not look too terribly skinny to me.How long has she been on TOTW? A week or so?

I would not do anything drastic to "fatten her up"... give her system some time to adjust to all the changes, and let the meds do their job on her skin/ear infection. Unless she's losing weight I would not be too concerned... dogs are supposed to have a waist.

yea, pic of her standing over top of her looking straight down, and from the side of her standing...

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Don't just judge by ribs either...I like to see some ribs on my guys (well, on the hairless ones that is...). I go by backbone and hip bones more than seeing riblets.

A nice easy way to figure out weight: hold your hand out, palm down. Feel the knuckles on your hand (the last ones, where your fingers join to your hands) with your other fingers. Then make a fist with the outstretched hand...feel those knuckles again. Then open the hand and flip it palm side up and feel the knuckles again. The first one should be what the dog's backbone *should* feel like. The second one...the dog is too skinny (you can feel individual knobs of the backbone). The third one...the dog is too fat...too much flesh over the backbone.

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pitbullmamaliz wrote:I think even that varies by dog. Inara's is pretty prominent, especially when she's curled up, but she's not underweight.

Yeah, but I find it a good one, other than just using ribs as a judge. And if you feel the knuckles the proper way, you *should* feel some backbone. Score's is readily visable too when he curls up. But...really the best, imho is hip bones...you really shouldn't see hipbones unless you're a saluki or an anorexic model or something.

"I don't have any idea if my dogs respect me or not, but they're greedy and I have their stuff." -- Patty Ruzzo

"Dogs don't want to control people. They want to control their own lives." --John Bradshaw